Employing heat pumps to recover low grade industrial thermal resources for space heating and cooling

The use of heat pumps to upgrade and recover low grade industrial thermal resources is an opportunity for industry to deliver low cost space heating at a reduced carbon footprint. Heat pumps also offer the potential to provide space heating and space cooling from a single unit. To facilitate rapid determination of the potential for low grade heat recovery using ground source heat pumps, a rapid scoping method was developed capable of establishing critical temperatures to help elucidate which resources are most likely to be recovered economically. To demonstrate the applicability of the rapid scoping method, an analysis of various process cooling waters present at a smelter site was undertaken. The implications for cost and carbon dioxide emissions, were both analyzed for this facility, although the concepts developed can be employed to any site that generates large quantities of thermally low-grade heat.

Name thesis:degree_name

Masters of Applied Sciences (MASc) in Natural Resources Engineering

Grantor dc:publisher

Laurentian University of Sudbury

Year dc:date.issued

2016

Author dc:creator

• Ross, Ian Michiel

• Heat pump
• Heat recovery
• Mineral processing
• Pyrometallurgy
• Smelting
• Space heating
• Waste heat

Language dc:language.iso

en

Repository record dc:identifier.uri

https://laurentian.scholaris.ca/handle/10219/2608

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